Is Single Player Gaming Doomed?
Posted by Donster on: 2006-02-12 15:58:36 732
By John "JCal" Callaham @ Gamecloud

Last week the California based Churchill Club hosted an event where several major gaming developers and execs talked about online multiplayer gaming. One of those execs was Sony Online Entertainment chief creative officer Raph Koster who stated during the event:

"The entire video game industry’s history thus far has been an aberration. It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal

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